Post-COVID Technology: 5 Devices From 2021 We Will See Soon
Like any crisis, the coronavirus has driven the advancement of technology, which grows in the face of difficulties and challenges. Today we review 5 key technologies, most of them driven by the health and economic crisis that originated in 2020. From 5G near the Internet of Things to virtual pets, technology has come to the rescue in a critical situation, and this year we will begin to see our environment clearly modified by it. Today we tell you what are the 2021 devices that we will see very soon among us.
VR / AR
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality have advanced by leaps
and bounds. The first consists of projecting digital content onto reality
through a device. The second is to simulate reality through technology. It is
obvious that industries such as video games or training programs can use it,
but during the pandemic we have seen other applications such as virtual tourism
or the social platforms of Virtual Reality.
Faced with the need to impose distances, virtual
relationships can help us maintain contact. And that's where devices that
facilitate virtual reality like VR glasses will be among the 2021 devices that
we will see. The 360 virtual reality allows an experience like Immersion VR ,
of which you can see a sample in the following video. We cannot show you the
entire experience, but you can click on the upper left corner and move within
the video.
5G smartphones
According to data from the consultancy IDC, it will go from
buying 10% of 5G devices in 2020 to 24% in 2024. The mobile phone has develop
an element of risk if touched, and voice technology (Voice User Interface ),
which facilitates 5G, may be a solution.
On the other hand, 5G networks five times faster than
previous technology. The demand for bandwidth from work and school activities
makes it increasingly useful, without counting on the fact that it enables
other healthcare applications such as remote surgery or the collection of
health indicators in real time.
In January of this year, some of the smartphones that we
will see soon were presented at the massive CES technology fair. Among them,
the TCL 20 5G that stands out for its 6.67-inch FHD + (2400 x 1080 pixels)
screen. We will see the LG option in the next point and Samsung, for its part,
has presented the Note20 5G / Ultra 5G and the Galaxy Z Flip 5G. The first
brings its immersive screen, its professional camera and its intuitive note
taking. The Galaxy Z Flip 5G is a folding mobile that can divide its screen and
view independent content on each opposite side of the device. We show it to you
in the following video:
Folding and rolling screens
Also at the CES technology fair, manufacturers such as the Korean LG and Samsung or the Chinese Oppo and TCL presented the folding and roll-up screens. The roll-up screen is one of the devices of 2021, due to its way of winning on the screen without increasing the increasingly bulky volume of mobile phones. They are screens such as TCL's 17-inch, 0.18-mm thick printed OLED roll-up screen (its manufacturer has not yet defined the device that will carry it), or the LG Rollable. The latter stretches from the size of a smartphone to that of a Tablet, as you can see in the following video:
IoT devices
The Internet of Things is an unstoppable phenomenon.
According to data from statista.com, in the US smart devices will go from
26,000 million in 2019 to 30,730 in 2020 and 75,440 in 2025. On the other hand,
Edge Computing, or edge computing, which allows saving bandwidth with services
low latency between processing centers and action nodes will give this
technology a big boost.
In medicine, its applications are as varied as smart
medicine dispensers, nanotechnological devices with biosensors capable of
detecting diseases or smart forks that detect how healthy a food is.
Next, we show you the smart drug dispenser with which students
from MakersUPV (Universitat Politècnica de València) have won the award for the
best project this year in the Smart Medical Design Challenge with Microchip
Technology:
Virtual pets
The loneliness of some people during the pandemic has
highlighted something that those who worked with groups such as the elderly
already knew: We need company, even if it is virtual. At CES this year, the
Vanguard Industries mascot Moflin was presented, a kind of stuffed animal that
works with artificial intelligence and adapts to the owner's habits, apart from
chirping emotional capacities. Technology will become increasingly important to
the growing number of lonely people and the smart pet is the last of our 2021
devices.
We leave you with an amazing video of Moflin's microfinance
campaign, with which we finish our review of the 2021 devices:
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